On Monday, President Donald Trump, alongside Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., highlighted studies suggesting a link between prenatal acetaminophen exposure and increased autism risk, now affecting 1 in 31 children. Although the over-the-counter drug is generically available, discussions use the brand name Tylenol.

They advised pregnant women to use caution with Tylenol usage, and to take it only in critical circumstances, such as high fevers or severe pain. Kennedy also stressed utilizing minimal dosing for the shortest time possible.

Across social media, medical industry employees and Tylenol’s manufacturer immediately argued that no direct causal link exists, declining to acknowledge a Harvard/Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai study that suggested a causal link. In a nod to responsibility, the makers posted a 2017 tweet from Tylenol’s official account saying, “We actually don’t recommend using any of our products while pregnant. Thank you for taking the time to voice your concerns today.”

At that time, the brand was managed by Janssen, the pharmaceutical arm of Johnson & Johnson. In 2023 they spun off its consumer products division into a separate company called Kenvue.

Now, viral videos are taking over social media of pregnant women downing Tylenol to prove a point — that Tylenol usage during pregnancy does not cause autism, contribute to its prevalence, or increase the risk of autism in their unborn children. Although the hashtag #Tylenol shows 32,000 posts on Tik-Tok, not all social media users are in agreement. Some have pointed out that the hatred for “Bad Orange Man” has exceeded common sense.

Virtue signaling drags COVID boosters into the fray
Last month, the Trump administration, in conjunction with Kennedy and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), introduced policies limiting routine COVID-19 booster shots to seniors and high-risk individuals, requiring most adults under 65 to obtain physician’s approval.

This decision prompted a wave of social media videos, particularly on TikTok, X, and Instagram, where individuals opposed to the restrictions filmed themselves obtaining or claiming to receive boosters as a public statement against the new rules.

If there exists a crossover population between those who are defying Trump by taking Tylenol and those getting Covid-19 boosters, the irony that the boosters are a result of Trump’s Operation Warp Speed has evaded their commentary.

Hatred of Trump inspires a Lysistrata movement in social media
Trump’s win in 2024 did not come as a surprise to the degree that it did in 2016. Many institutionally reliable polls that formerly favored Trump’s Democrat opponents in the past reflected a renewed preference for the 45th president’s policies.

Despite the warnings, leftists were outraged that the 45th president became the 47th president-elect in the wee hours of November 6, 2024. In the coming days and weeks, a visible trend emerged on social media platforms, in particular TikTok and X, where women shaved their heads as a symbolic protest against the election outcome and ostensible threats to women’s rights.

This “stick it to the man” revolt, often shared in emotional, live-filmed videos, was framed as a rejection of patriarchal beauty standards and a reclaiming of bodily autonomy. The participants also claimed they would abstain from sex (with men) and in some cases not even talk to men.

Is Liberalism beginning to look like a mental disorder?
Research by pollster Zach Goldberg in 2020, analyzing Pew data, revealed that young liberal women were increasingly reporting poor mental health. A 2022 study further showed a significant rise in depression among liberal high school girls over the past 15 years, far outpacing other high school groups, particularly their conservative peers.

And again last year, an American Family Survey found similar results, noting that young liberal women are markedly less satisfied with life than their conservative peers. 37% of conservative women reported being “completely satisfied” with life, whereas only 12% of liberal women reported the same level of satisfaction.

Liberal women in the survey were two to three times more likely to respond that they were “not satisfied” with their lives, compared to conservative women. And consistent with previous studies in 2020 and 2022, the effect of ideology on young women’s happiness held up to controls for a multitude of demographic variances including age, education, race, and income.

Conservative commentator Robby Soave ignited his own firestorm on social media when he reported in June that statistician Nate Silver found that “among voters who report poor mental health, liberals outnumber conservatives 45% to 19%.” On his own blog, Silver explained that “Young people in general report fairly miserable mental health, with high rates of anxiety and depression.”

Infamous Vox co-founder and JournoList member Matthew Iglesias went even further, admitting in a 2023 essay that after reviewing some in-depth studies, “Breaking things down by gender and ideology, they find that liberal girls have the highest increase in depressive affect and conservative boys have the least. But liberal boys are more depressed than conservative girls, suggesting an important independent role for political ideology.”

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